Wave fields in Weyl spaces and conditions for the existence of a preferred pseudo-Riemannian structure

DOI10.1007/BF01215754zbMath0581.53051OpenAlexW2162288336WikidataQ115393859 ScholiaQ115393859MaRDI QIDQ1067630

Franz Gähler, Jürgen Audretsch, Norbert Straumann

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01215754

zbMATH Keywords

geodesicsfiber bundlesLorentz conformal structureshort wave limitsWKB limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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